The concept of holistic processing is a cornerstone of face-recognition research. In the study
reported here, we demonstrated that holistic processing predicts face-recognition abilities on …

It has long been argued that face processing requires disproportionate reliance on holistic or
configural processing, relative to that required for non-face object recognition, and that a …

We test 12 individuals with congenital prosopagnosia (CP), who replicate a common pattern
of showing severe difficulty in recognising facial identity in conjunction with normal …

Primary vision segregates information along 2 main dimensions: orientation and spatial
frequency (SF). An important question is how this primary visual information is integrated to …

A large body of research supports the hypothesis that the human visual system does not
process a face as a collection of separable facial features but as an integrated perceptual …

We used the composite-face illusion and Navon stimuli to determine the consequences of
priming local or global processing on subsequent face recognition. The composite-face …

The composite paradigm is widely used to quantify holistic processing (HP) of faces, but
there is debate regarding the appropriate design (partial vs. complete) and measures in this …

In the field of face processing, the configural hypothesis is defended by many researchers. It
is often claimed that this thesis is robustly supported by a large number of experiments …

People are very good at discriminating faces despite their gross similarity. Our ability to
capitalize on the variance that exists between faces has been attributed to an adaptive face …

Inversion dramatically impairs face perception, recognition, and discrimination. Yet it does
not interfere with the ability to make precise estimates of facial feature distances. To …